It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.

I want to negotiate what I’m worth. I want to put my analytics forward, man-to-man, and to be like, ‚This is what I’m owed now. Pay me.‘ And then we can talk.

What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

I will continue to believe that Israel’s security is paramount.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

That government is best which governs least.

Politics is applesauce.

I think 9/11 affected everybody in one way or another.

Obama, of course, outspent McCain.

I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.

I don’t think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

I’m doing more of my U.N. work and doing the African Union Summit and things like that.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he’s African American.

Paris is always a good idea.

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

Our favorite holding period is forever.

The capability of negotiating… is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn’t have much to say about how they’d make it right. They want your vote, but they don’t want you to know their plan.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Most negotiators are trying to get their way.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.

Remember, no one decides who they’re going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

I’m glad I’m not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone’s tape recording what you say.

You have to make sure you know why you are going to war and then use decisive force to end it as soon as possible.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

Nowhere is it written that there must be conflict between the United States and China.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for 15 years.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

I have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

Hillary doesn’t play. She has more experience and exposure to the presidency than any candidate in our lifetime – yes, more than Barack, more than Bill. So she is absolutely ready to be Commander-in-Chief on day one. And, yes, she happens to be a woman.

It’s in the best interest of the radical left types – best psychological and strategic interest – to refuse to admit to the possibility that reasonable people can object to their ideological staff. Because if reasonable people objected, that would imply that their ideological stance is not reasonable.

Trump just looks stupid trying to appeal to blacks and Latinos.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

I haven’t been very active in politics.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy’s finest hour.

If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

There’s no doubt that usually a president’s public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn’t that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I’d already been translating French poetry, I’d been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.